A week and a day and we are on our way! Meanwhile, meet the travelers. And one of them is traveling right this minute. Taite is in the air between Detroit and Houston. A week in Houston will give him a taste of big city life and a plateful of Houston heat—all the better to appreciate the cool Alaskan air.

Taite is a rising senior at Albemarle High in Charlottesville, Virginia. (He lives in nearby Earlysville.) He enjoys history best of all his subjects. He’ll get lots of family history this summer. It’s not all books and reading. Sometimes he flys when he’s not even in a plane!